Task 9 – Non - Continuity

non continuity editing 

Non-Continuity Editing is a style of film making that was made popular throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Filmmakers such as Jean Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut pushed the limitation of editing techniques and he created a new style, which was called “French New Wave”.

French New Wave films used a editing style which is called Carefree and did not conform to the traditional editing etiquette of Hollywood films. French New Wave films used a editing style which is called Carefree and did not conform to the traditional editing etiquette of Hollywood films.

French New wave editing often drew attention to itself by Lack of Continuity, its Self-Reflexive Nature (reminding the audience that they were watching a film).  Furthermore, they often used material not often related to any narrative, which kept the audience surprised and intrigued.

In the scene A Bout de Soufflé, we see a jump cut, for example when Seberg picks the mirror up and all of a sudden it is gone again. Jump Cut are mostly used to draw attention to something particular, for example the mirror in her hand.

À bout de souffle- breathless 

The gap action (when Seberg picked up the mirror ) is emphasised by the use of a Jump Cut. 

Film were used to help create carefree editing styles because it did not conform the way of editing and was known as Hollywood editing. It got a lot of attention and audience and they think a lot more than normal film did and the audience saw it in a different way. This was called self-reflexive nature. Around this period non-continuity editing became very effective. 

Furthermore, this meant people became more interested at the French director ‘Jean Luc Goddard’ because he created a film that blew people’s mind away ‘A BOUT DE SOUFFLE’. A specific scene involved jump cut and many more, which was when the mirror changed in the clip, the changed of background and lightening. He used this because he want to startle the audience for them to gain attention to a particular part of a scene shot.

Another film was ‘The Shining’ which was created by Stanley Kubrick. He broke the 180 degree editing technique. This was shown when the character’s position was switch around due to the camera angle being changed and moved. However, it is not only old films that uses this technique, modern films still use this technique, For example ‘The Hunger Game’, this was used to show how Katniss felt about the environment she was in.